Word: einsteins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...environment for a sick child." O'Neill feels strongly that such considerations have no bearing on the decision to offer treatment; he also disputes the notion that the cost of Angela's care was out of line. Dr. Alan Fleischman, professor of pediatrics at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, agrees. "Interventions of this kind for newborns with congenital anomalies are far from rare in the U.S.," he says. "Expenditures of $1 million are hardly rare...
...increase in mass, however, is consistent with Einstein's theory that extra energy from high-speed particles can be translated into matter...
Meanwhile, Martin's unoriginal characters are just that, unoriginal, and worse, they are the leads. Einstein is fabulously entertaining--and charming--as the Frasier Crane of physics, always having to put up with inferior intellects, but even modernizing Einstein cannot shake him from his stereotypes. Picasso could not be more repulsive, but we already knew that anyway. His legendary misogyny is not lost on Martin or his scrip;, unfortunately there was on way to make it funny either. I kept wondering why Picasso gets his name in the title rather than Einstein. Not only is he the biggest drag...
Which brings me to the strange but out standing feature of this otherwise funny piece. Martin has plenty of personal agendas in this play that appear suddenly and without grace, bringing the action to a grinding halt. The most obvious example features Einstein announcing that women (apparently as political entity) have on place in science. Germaine, the waitress, takes Einstein's comment as potentially sexist, whereupon Einstein proclaims loudly and victoriously that science has nothing to do with gender issues. Fair enough, but the study of it certainly does, and it was towards this theme that the exchange had progressed...
More imaginitive elements such as subverting the illusion of theater are worth a few laughs, and in all,Lapin Agileplays with ease, style and great fun, if only for want of some structural progression. Einstein's idea parade meanders and circles with on real way of ending plausibly, so later in the piece, a dark-eyed dream boy from the future shows up in blue suede shoes as a prophet of change. No point to that, either, other than to see where the future is heading, I suppose, and to conclude that meaningful dialogue between the arts and sciences...